Pentagon Confirms It Sought To Build A 'Gay Bomb' (was this posted???)

[hadrons]

(CBS 5) BERKELEY A Berkeley watchdog organization that tracks military spending said it uncovered a strange U.S. military proposal to create a hormone bomb that could purportedly turn enemy soldiers into homosexuals and make them more interested in sex than fighting.

Pentagon officials on Friday confirmed to CBS 5 that military leaders had considered, and then subsquently rejected, building the so-called "Gay Bomb."

Edward Hammond, of Berkeley's Sunshine Project, had used the Freedom of Information Act to obtain a copy of the proposal from the Air Force's Wright Laboratory in Dayton, Ohio.

As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.

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http://cbs5.com/topstories/local_story_159222541.html

[havocmom]

1. yep, there's a thread on it

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1094983

Reminded me of the Get Smart! movie where CHAOS was gonna unleash THE NUDE BOMB

[bryant69]

2. It is the sort of story that it's hard to resist posting

I mean even having read all the comments I feel the urge to post it; it's just the perfect storm of absurdism. It sounds like something Grant Morrison would come up with.

Bryant
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[Phredicles]

3. Now see, here's a military technology that SHOULD proliferated:

Replace Mutual Assured Destruction with Mutual Assured Gayness, and turn the battle-field from an orgy of death into the more traditional kind of orgy. I gotta this it would have the Religious Right backing away from it's traditional militarism with breath-taking speed, too!:evilgrin:

[damntexdem]

4. Don't ask, don't smell?

Sounds like this one should have been located at the Air Force's Wrong Laboratory, not the Wright Lab.

Hey, if they develop it and then it gets used on U.S. troops, would the U.S. military have to discharge everyone?

[commander bunnypants]

5. all I can do is go

blink blink

CB

[WindRavenX]

6. you know, everytime someone says American is #1, I shall direct them to this OP

A gay. Bomb. :wtf:

[shimmergal]

7. Actually, what we ought to develop

is a testosterone antagonist.

Not only would it tamper down the urge to fight, major testosterone loss makes the person not feel like doing anything. It could turn the guys at the target destination into complete couch potatoes.

[Touchdown]

8. That's already been proven on the field.

It's called marriage.:evilgrin: